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Google Scraps Project Loon – 4G Rural Broadband via Balloon

January 22, 2021, 6:40 am
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Maybe it was just a lot of hot air but Google (Alphabet) has announced that Loon, their long-running project that aimed to deploy mobile broadband (4G / 5G) connectivity from High Altitude Platforms (stratospheric balloons), is “winding down” as a company after they struggled to turn it into a commercial success. The super-pressure, helium-filled and […]
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Virgin Media’s 5G Mobile Goes Live via Vodafone UK UPDATED

January 25, 2021, 12:40 am
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The mobile division of cable broadband, TV and phone provider Virgin Media – Virgin Mobile – appears to have started the live launch of their new ultrafast 5G based data services, albeit initially only using their new Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) platform from Vodafone rather than O2. Just to recap. At the end of […]
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Ofcom UK Delays Start of 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz 5G Auction

January 25, 2021, 2:45 am
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The UK telecoms regulator has today confirmed that the new COVID-19 lockdown will delay the start of their auction for the 700MHz and 3.6-3.8GHz radio spectrum bands, which was previously due to start this month. The new bands should help to improve the coverage and speed of 5G mobile (mobile broadband) networks. In a brief […]
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O2, Three UK and Vodafone to Share 222 Rural 4G Mobile Masts

January 26, 2021, 11:56 pm
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The £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) industry project made progress today after mobile operators O2, Three UK and Vodafone reached a related agreement to both build and share 222 new 4G mobile masts, which will be used to boost mobile voice and mobile broadband coverage in rural parts of the country. In case anybody has […]
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Gov Consults on New ECC Changes to Aid UK Broadband Rollout

January 28, 2021, 1:07 am
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The UK Government has launched a consultation on a series of proposed changes to the Electronic Communications Code (ECC), which aims to put right some of the problems caused by their last revision in 2017 and could thus make it quicker for broadband and 4G or 5G mobile operators to deploy their networks. The ECC […]
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MPs Warn UK Gov’s 5G Diversification Strategy Lacks Clear Targets

February 4, 2021, 3:30 am
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The cross-party UK Science and Technology Committee has warned that the Government’s 5G Supply Chain Diversification Strategy, which aspires to ensure that mobile operators have a better choice of suppliers after Huawei’s ban, lacks “clear milestones” and detail. The strong focus on OpenRAN is also not “guaranteed” to succeed. A number of mobile operators, particularly […]
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Virgin Media’s Unlimited Mobile Data Plan Now Available to All

February 7, 2021, 11:56 pm
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Cable broadband ISP Virgin Media UK has quietly made an important little change to their top unlimited mobile data plan, which removes the requirement for those who take it out to be an existing customer of their current pay TV, fixed line internet or home phone products. The tariff, which also comes with unlimited UK […]
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iD Mobile UK Signs New Agreement to Launch 5G Mobile Plans

February 8, 2021, 11:46 pm
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Mobile operator iD Mobile (Dixons Carphone) has extended their existing Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement with supplier Three UK and as part of that they will also gain access to the latest ultrafast 5G based mobile broadband connectivity, as well as continued 4G provision. The operator, which is now home to over 1 million […]
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O2 Study Predicts £187.7m 4G Boost for Rural UK Businesses

February 10, 2021, 1:51 am
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A new study commissioned by O2 UK has predicted that the first phase of the new £1bn Shared Rural Network (SRN) project with Vodafone and Three UK, which will see all three mobile operators working to build and share 222 new 4G (mobile broadband) masts (here), could increase the turnover for rural businesses by £187.7m […]
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Farmers See Small Improvements in UK Mobile and Broadband

February 10, 2021, 3:56 am
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The National Farmers Union (NFU) has published the results from their annual (2020) survey of 430 members, which found that just 20% of farmers had access to fixed “superfast broadband” (24Mbps+) speeds (up from 17% last year) and 11% have no indoor mobile signal at all (better than the 15% recorded last year). Admittedly farmers […]
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Sky Mobile UK Customers are Now Able to Share Out Spare Data

February 11, 2021, 5:54 am
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Sky (Sky Broadband) has this week added a temporary new feature to their 4G and 5G powered Sky Mobile plans, which enables customers with lots of spare data (mobile broadband) in their “Piggybank” to share some of it with someone they know who may need it (e.g. friends or family). One of the features of Sky […]
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Over a Third of UK Home Workers are Switching to Mobile Data

February 12, 2021, 12:01 am
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A new YouGov survey of 4,328 British adults, which was commissioned by mobile operator O2, has found that 36% of Brits currently working from home (1,351 of the respondents) are regularly switching to mobile broadband (4G / 5G data) to stay online and 61% say it’s made the working experience better. The aforementioned results are […]
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nPerf Ranks EE Top in 2021 Benchmark of UK Mobile Networks

February 12, 2021, 1:38 am
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French company nPerf has today published the results of their annual crowd-sourced data study into UK mobile broadband (4G, 5G) performance, which finds that EE has unseated rival Vodafone from last year’s top spot and is now named as the best operator across most of the performance categories. In this study nPerf’s results appear to […]
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Infrastructure Commission Calls for Detailed Gigabit Rollout Plans

February 17, 2021, 2:50 am
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The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has just published its Annual Monitoring Report 2021, which among other things calls on the UK Government to set out a “workable plan” for ensuring that the hardest to reach homes and businesses can “get the benefits of high capacity broadband” (i.e. gigabit speed connectivity). At this point the Government […]
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GWS Names the Best Mobile Operators for 37 UK Cities in 2021

February 19, 2021, 6:19 am
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Global Wireless Solutions has today published the results of their annual (2021) study of mobile network (4G and 5G) performance (broadband speeds etc.) across 37 UK cities, which concludes that O2 is the “most reliable network” – performing best in 18 of 37 cities, towns, and motorways tested, followed by EE, Vodafone and Three UK. […]
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Vodafone UK Extend Free Mobile Data to 150,000 More School Kids

February 22, 2021, 3:26 am
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Mobile operator Vodafone have today extended their offer of free Data SIMs (mobile broadband), which come packed with a 30GB (GigaByte) allowance – valid for 90 days, to help another 150,000 primary and secondary school children to stay connected with their education during the COVID-19 crisis. The operator’s schools.connected programme essentially gives schools the ability […]
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Report Finds EE’s UK Mobile Network Still Best for 5G Broadband

February 22, 2021, 4:01 pm
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A new study from mobile benchmarking firm RootMetrics, which exclusively examined the latest network availability and mobile broadband speeds on 5G operators in the UK, has found the EE still “continues to lead the way” on both fronts. Meanwhile O2 seems to be lagging behind their rivals. The new report examines how each operator’s 5G […]
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ASA Ban Three UK’s Best Network for Data Claim After EE Moan

February 24, 2021, 12:15 am
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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned several adverts for mobile operator Three UK after they all were found to have made the same “misleading” claim of offering the “Best Network for Data” (mobile broadband), which the watchdog said could not be substantiated. The complaint against three adverts – a paid-for search ad (a), a […]
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Sky and Vodafone Air Competition Fears of Virgin Media and O2 Merger

February 24, 2021, 9:36 am
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Sky UK (Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband) and Vodafone have today published their responses to the Competition and Markets Authority‘s (CMA) on-going phase 2 investigation into the proposed £31bn merger between mobile operator O2 and broadband ISP (inc. TV, phone) Virgin Media, which raises a number of competition concerns. In theory, there shouldn’t be too many […]
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Vodafone UK Discounts Unlimited Mobile Broadband and Data Plans

February 25, 2021, 2:07 am
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Mobile operator Vodafone UK has today introduced a range of discounts across their various data based Pay As You Go (PAYG) bundles, unlimited data plans and mobile broadband (4G, 5G etc.) packages, which will either give you more data or reduce the monthly price by around 50% for the first 6 months of service. First […]
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